Steve Gibson, the man who coined the term spyware and created the first anti-spyware program, creator of SpinRite and ShieldsUP, discusses the hot topics in security today with Leo Laporte. Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
SN 1037: Chinese Participation in MAPP - Why Signal is Leaving Australia
- A follow-up to the SharePoint server patch mess.
- How Russia arranges to spy on other country's local embassies.
- "Dropbox Passwords" manager app is ending in October.
- Signal will leave Australia rather than help spy.
- YouTube deploys viewing history age-estimation heuristics.
- Chrome adds clever lightweight extension signing to prevent abuse.
- A domain registrar is coming close to losing its rights.
- A TP-Link router that doesn't encrypt its configuration.
- What is "TruAge" and might it be useful for age verification.
- An update on "Artemis".
- With U.S.-China tensions on the rise, should Chinese security companies receive weeks of advance notice of forthcoming Microsoft flaw patches?
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1037-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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